I recently spotted a new park that had yet to be activated and figured I could get there and grab the “First Activation” relatively easily. So after a quick look on the local Council website and a quick check of Google Maps to see who hard it would be to activate it. The POTA.app page …
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My hiking partner and I figured we’d tick Pendle Hill off the list of Southern Pennines we’re yet to activate. On paper it looked like an easy activation, simply park up at SD 7719 3855 and walk up the gentle slop of Pendle Hill. Although just as we were parking I heard a SOTA station …
I had an hour to kill and was near a POTA park, so figured I’d do a quick activation. Fleetwood Marsh is an odd Park, being located behind a “recycling center” and landfill that can give off quite a smell if the weather is warm. However, once you’ve driven past that and made it to …
I recently picked up a SOTABeams BandHopper II and a Tactical Mini. My plan is to use these for some SOTA activations, however I didn’t want the first time I put the mast up to be on top of a mountain. Therefore, we set out to activate a park that doesn’t get a lot of …
I’ve had Jubilee Tower on my list to activate for a little while; It’s a great spot for a little radio work – in fact I’ve had a couple of contacts us there already, before I knew it was a POTA location. So this Saturday after we finished our errands in town we decided to …
We planned a hike today around Gisburn Forest, which is within the Forest of Bowland and therefore a POTA park. We set off dressed lightly, and for a change I wasn’t carrying a radio. We did a loop of about 6km and discussed heading back to the car and grabbing radios and then doing the …
Whilst idly checking the POTA Map, I spotted a park which had never been activated. I was a little surprised since it’s in the middle of a town and very easily accessible – with plenty of parking and plenty of space. Whilst there is parking within the park boundary, so it would be possible to activate …
It’s pretty rare for me to have a “failed” activation, but a recent trip to Scotland led to just that – so I figured I’d share a story of a successful summit but not a successful activation. Any other day of the year this would likely have been an easy activation – but we were …
For some reason, I’ve put off activating Longridge Fell for a while. I’ve often passed it and could have activated it but always gone elsewhere. I think the fact that it’s only small (350m) and has a short hike in (1.5km) pushed me to tick off other summits like Pendle Hill and Fair Snape Fell …
I planned an ambitious trip for this weekend, planning to activation four SOTA summits in three days. The hiking wasn’t too ambitious, but fitting in trips like this around my day job can be tricky. The first summit planned was Shining Tor, and it turned out to be the nicest hike of the four – …